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Following practice, the team announced that Apple had been suspended for the final week of the regular season, making him the third cornerback to be suspended this season joining Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Janoris Jenkins, who each served one-game bans.

“We have suspended Eli for a pattern of behavior that is conduct detrimental to the team,” interim general manager Kevin Abrams said in a press release.

Apple was with the team and on the practice field Wednesday, but when approached for comments afterwards, the 24-year-old dismissed reporters, telling them he needed to go “take a [expletive].”

In addition to that, Apple also reportedly refused to take the field with the scout team and got into a verbal altercation with cornerbacks coach Tim Walton and other coaches on Wednesday.

Eli Apple’s suspension today was due in part to his refusal to take the field with the scout team, source says. @RapSheet says he then got into it with a coach.

Eli Apple had some sort of argument with coaches at practice Wednesday, including CB coach Tim Walton, sources told myself and Dan Graziano. This was surely part of a "pattern of behavior that is conduct detrimental to the team" but not the only reason… https://t.co/nkNi6voYel

Earlier in the week, safety Landon Collins told ESPN Radio that Apple is considered a locker-room “cancer,” and later told ESPN’s Josina Anderson that the cornerback had “checked out” on the team.

Those comments came on the heels of Apple denying any meetings with Collins this season, which seemed to infuriate the All-Pro safety who was merely trying to help him.

On Wednesday morning, Apple and Collins were called into the office of interim head coach Steve Spagnuolo. After that meeting, Collins offered up a public apology.

I met with Coach Spags and Eli this morning and I apologized for the things I said yesterday. I never stop supporting my brother/teammate Eli and the rest of my teammates as we move forward. Just want him to know I'm always here for him 💯@EliApple13

Unfortunately, even with a mulligan at hand, Apple didn’t seem to “get it.” His intentional immaturity with reporters in the face of an opportunity to calm the situation was more than Abrams & Co. were willing to bear.

Not only is Apple’s season over, it’s quite possible his Giants career is now over. Having been suspended for repeated conduct detrimental to the team, New York now have a chance to void a portion of the guaranteed money on Apple’s contract and potentially part ways with him without fear of eating a large chunk of dead cap.

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Family and financial issues aside, Apple is now at a crossroads. He can either grow up and learn to fly on his own, or he can watch his career die slowly similar to that of former Giants defensive end Damontre Moore.

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